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Every June, Blackboard courses that are over 3 years old are archived. Courses indicated as continuing, as work sites, and newer than three years to the present will be retained and excluded from the archiving process.

Courses will NOT be deleted, they will simply be removed from Blackboard and saved as files in an alternative place at UIC. Courses are available for restoration upon request.

Blackboard Learn is a web application that allows the creation, administration, tracking, and delivery of digital content via course sites. This type of application is also referred to as a Learning Management System or LMS. At UIC, Blackboard Learn course sites are used in three main ways:

for the enhancement of face-to-face instruction,

as an important component of content delivery for blended courses, and

as a core element delivering and assessing learning in online courses.

UIC provides all faculty and instructors with a free and easy-to-use lecture capture tool called Echo360 ALP. Along with features provided by the tool, UIC faculty have access to support, learning workshops, and personal consultations.

The captures created from Echo360 ALP can be linked to Blackboard Learn and accessed via Echo 360.org

The ACCC provides assistance to the users of the common use classrooms (those scheduled by the Office of Classroom Scheduling) and ACCC computer labs on the East Side of campus. The Learning Environments & Technology Support (LETS) office is centrally located in Lecture Center E, to provide a single point of contact for any support needed.

When you're going to be away from your email for an extended period of time, you can use the auto-reply filter to automatically respond to your incoming email to inform senders that you're away, when you'll be back, and perhaps let them know who they can get in touch with for help while you're gone.

These instructions apply to Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2010. To set up an auto reply message from a shared mailbox, you will need to create a second Outlook profile that connects only to the shared mailbox.

Note: We recommend using the Global Address List as your default address book.

If you open the Microsoft Office Outlook Address Book and do not see the name or e-mail address you are looking for, you might need to choose another address book from the Address Book list. If you find yourself choosing another address book frequently, you can change the default address book that is displayed when you open the Address Book.

ACCC provides Exchange email as a premium email and calendaring service available to faculty and staff. This premium service ensures a flawless integration with Outlook enhancing your management of calendar, email, contact, task, and note integration. Exchange has superior speed with large mailboxes, and much more up-to-date and functional web interface. Mobile computing is made easy with native support for Windows Mobile smart phones. Mobile devices are supported by using Exchange Active Sync, available on all major mobile manufacturers (Apple, Android, Windows, BlackBerry).

We currently provide the cloud based version of Exchange, which is known as Exchange Online. All newly hired employees are automatically provisioned with Exchange Online accounts.

The process of updating personal information in the UIC Directory, such as name, NetID, phone numbers or office location depends on affiliation with the University.

Students

Student information in the UIC Directory is managed by the Office of the Registrar. To update personal information, such as name or mailing address, students should access my.UIC.edu and via Student Self-Service update mailing addresses and preferred first name online. For updates to legal name, contact the Office of the Registrar.

Sixty days prior to each term, ACCC Learning Technology Solutions (LTS) creates course shells for all CRN-based courses reflected in Banner. This means that if an instructor has a course site that is associated with a CRN, they do not have to request a course site creation.

Connecting to our wireless network through Windows is easy with your UIC NetID and password. Windows 8 requires no external software, it's just a simple login. For Windows XP / Vista / 7, we have a UIC-WiFi Installer that can be downloaded and used to automatically configure your connection. We also have manual instructions at the bottom for people who would prefer to do that.

The newly formed Learning Technology Solutions team of the ACCC is currently working to revise our web site content. Please stay tuned for updates!

Introducing a new team in the ACCC: Learning Technology Solutions (LTS). This team brings together the instructional design and software support aspects of the Instructional Technology Lab, with the classroom and computer lab technology support of the Learning Environments & Technology Services office. This newly-merged group will be working to improve your experience as an instructor here at UIC by providing a central point of contact for all of your learning technology needs.

OUR MISSION

To enhance student success and faculty empowerment through learning technologies.

Have an ACCC Microsoft Exchange account and want to connect Microsoft Outlook 2010+ to it? Follow these easy steps to get it connected! If you need a copy of Office 2010 or 2013 for your UI owned computer, it is available for free on the WebStore. If you need to install Office on your personal device, you will have to use Office 365. You can download Office 365 Professional 2016 here. Remember to use your email address and ACCC common password to authenticate.

The UIC community wireless network identifies itself as UIC-WiFi. Visitors to UIC may be eligible to use UIC-Guest or eduroam. UIC-WiFi uses WPA2 Enterprise Security. WPA2 Enterprise implements the 802.11i security standard, which includes government-grade AES encryption and 802.1x authentication. The specific authentication method that we use with PEAP-MSCHAPv2.

Instructors will often want to print the entire content of a thread or series of threads for reading offline. If a user attempts to print from the main course site view of the Discussion Forum this will create problems, due to the Blackboard frames layout. To format the content of a discussion forum for printing follow these steps:

To access many authenticated university services and create accounts, new students, faculty and staff must first activate their UIC NetID. The following information is required to complete the activation:

ACCC Satellite Services Helpdesk provides hands-on technical support for personal computers and other devices of UIC students, staff, and faculty. Support is available for connecting to campus networks, including UIC-WiFi, virus removal, and installing campus-licensed software.